Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

×5.25 74 #85 | 153 points by Cider9986 4 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)

×4.80 58 | 197 points by teichmann 12 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions (sebastian-jais.de)

×4.79 61 | 85 points by gleipnircode 7 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture

×3.11 54 | 106 points by barratia 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas (yale.edu)

×3.14 47 #59 | 144 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)

×5.16 32 | 251 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.

×2.88 35 | 19 points by ssiddharth 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)

×5.37 24 | 161 points by wibbily 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It (ciphercue.com)

×1.35 25 | 84 points by adulion 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work (aphyr.com)

×2.91 28 #37 | 225 points by aphyr 5 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?

×1.27 46 | 7 points by mijustin 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The cost of building a workflow editor on React Flow (workflowbuilder.io)

×1.26 51 | 7 points by maciek996 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Claude Fly a Plane? (thanks.fish)

×1.88 20 | 100 points by casi 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone (techcrunch.com)

×4.10 19 | 253 points by ZeidJ 23 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue (lantian.pub)

×0.79 26 #49 | 39 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)

×1.98 19 #79 | 149 points by WillDaSilva 14 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes (ziglang.org)

×6.39 23 #41 | 86 points by ska80 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample (theconversation.com)

×2.37 24 #58 | 20 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iop.org)

×4.20 20 #25 | 118 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Stacked PRs (github.com/gh-stack)

×3.92 11 #42 | 861 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sony Boss Urges Theaters to Stop 30 Minutes of Trailers and Ads Before Movies (variety.com)

×2.84 34 | 4 points by randycupertino 45 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

×2.79 19 #33 | 32 points by morpheuskafka 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem (nytimes.com)

×2.32 50 | 4 points by paulpauper 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client (pages.casa)

×1.27 12 #36 | 62 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (google.com)

×3.65 9 #28 | 781 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration (mdpi.com)

×2.10 10 #75 | 34 points by pvsukale3 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain (arstechnica.com)

×2.25 10 #64 | 35 points by ckemere 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others (rareese.com)

×5.53 8 #18 | 830 points by rrreese 12 hours ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amex Debuts Ace Developer Kit with Registered Agent Protection (americanexpress.com)

×1.96 23 | 3 points by amex_tech 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)

×4.14 7 #24 | 1004 points by thebiblelover7 18 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
jj – the CLI for Jujutsu (steveklabnik.github.io)

×2.70 7 #20 | 441 points by tigerlily 10 hours ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)

×4.37 6 #35 | 1130 points by speckx 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024) (quantamagazine.org)

×2.26 6 | 102 points by paulpauper 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese Electrotech Is the Big Winner in the Iran War (paulkrugman.substack.com)

×1.92 16 | 3 points by dxs 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who sent you? – The agent identity crisis (highflame.com)

×1.85 14 | 3 points by jalbrethsen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Court rules X must give privacy researcher access to personal data (nltimes.nl)

×1.89 13 | 3 points by Kiala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pave – CLI for Managing Path (github.com/microsoft)

×1.60 33 | 3 points by cpendery 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com/openssl)

×2.76 7 #14 | 113 points by petecooper 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)

×2.29 4 #78 | 424 points by speckx 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The exponential curve behind open source backlogs (armanckeser.com)

×1.04 4 #66 | 65 points by armanckeser 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Would You See Changed in Haskell? (haskell.org)

×1.71 9 | 3 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon acquires Apple's satellite partner (sixcolors.com)

×1.29 5 #60 | 13 points by CharlesW 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autonomous Robot Brigade Successfully Retook Russian Positions in Ukraine (thetimes.com)

×1.89 7 #46 | 8 points by alephnerd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)

×2.22 3 | 317 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sk.illmd.com, a forum for talking about and showing off agent skills (skillmd.discourse.group)

×1.45 7 | 3 points by 0gs 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open (nim-lang.org)

×0.89 3 #45 | 100 points by moigagoo 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again (eff.org)

×1.88 3 #56 | 34 points by hn_acker 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times (bandaancha.eu)

×3.40 3 #5 | 353 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)

×1.70 2 | 324 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says (theregister.com)

×4.44 4 #7 | 97 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finding unusual machines in network scans (xn--mbius-jua.band)

×1.82 4 | 3 points by gebgebgeb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: GUI or TUI for Coding Harness?

×3.37 47 | 3 points by nwparker 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)

×2.96 1 | 364 points by bundie 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (medium.com)

×1.97 2 #17 | 25 points by martythemaniak 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Amazon Is Buying Starlink Rival Globalstar in $11B Deal (wsj.com)

×1.44 2 #63 | 5 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A simpler, faster way to unlock 1Password (1password.com)

×1.60 1 #44 | 5 points by doener 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???